The peace of the holy mind is the peace, not of stagnation, but of self-conquest. Its intensity, therefore, the amount of moral force that is in it, is to be measured, not by what it displays, but by what it implies—by the strength of those evil passions which have been subdued, by the impetuosity of those appetites which have been mastered, by the repellent energy of those powers of man's nature which have been reconciled. The calm and resistless power of Law can be gauged only by the chaos of seemingly conflicting elements out of which it educes harmony and peace. So, how much moral power does that calmness and quietude of a saintly spirit often bespeak.

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